Manchester City · PL 25/26 · Champions League 25/26 — pick a competition below (same club, separate player pools)
Competition
Premier League 25/26
Manchester City
Default view is a per-slot first-choice selection in the season’s most-used formation. Swaps recompute personnel and Synergy — style metrics stay on season aggregates.
Interactive pitch
Hover a player for details. Use Side bias or Squad profiles to read the XI. Select bench → slot to swap.
Bench
Team Synergy
Team strength and Synergy (synergy-v3) for this XI. Both update on pitch swaps.
Team strength
91.5
Mean primary-role quality of this XI
Synergy
85.5
Capability identity 93.7 · complete 98.0
Identity
Possession
Confidence 87%
Strongest capability
100.0
Deep Progression
Biggest gap
35.1
Tempo Control · score 36.6 / target 78
This squad is exceptionally suited to possession football because it combines Elite wide playmaking, Elite rest defence, Elite first-phase circulation. Main limitations: Below-minimum tempo control; Limited rotational flexibility; Average occupation.
- · Primary Goalscoring depends heavily on one player (Erling Haaland).
Personnel (live)
Recomputed from current XI selection — role tiers are fixed inputs, not re-derived.
Progression hub
Rodri
Elite Deep-Lying Playmaker
Primary creator
Jérémy Doku
Elite Duelist Winger
Updated by swap
Primary threat
Erling Haaland
Elite Poacher
Side bias (current XI)
-6.5%
LHS lean
No structural gaps in current XI.
Style (season — fixed)
Premier League 25/26 · Season aggregates vs the rest of this competition. Click a shot zone to light it on the pitch.
Team identity
League-percentile style fingerprint for Manchester City — shape of play, not overall strength. Outer edge = top of the competition on that axis.
Possession
Ball possession vs league
P100
1/20
Assisted creation
Share of shots after a teammate pass/cross
P100
1/20
Set pieces
Shots from corners / FKs / throw-in SP
P5
19/20
Transitions
Fast-break shot share
P21
16/20
Directness
Accurate long balls / passes
P0
20/20
Box threat
In-box shot share (six-yard + box)
P89
3/20
Press proxy
Defensive actions per opp possession
P100
1/20
Dashed ring = league median (P50)
Attack shape
Attack →
Shots from the six-yard + penalty box (close-range volume).
Mean xG / shot
Set-piece goals 14.3% of goals
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9 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
How chances are created
Share of season shots by situation — not a quality score.
Assisted shot %
% of shots after a teammate pass/cross
55.5%
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 48.1
Set-piece shot %
Corners, FKs, throw-in SP, set pieces
24.6%
19 of 20 · P5 · league med 32.1
Fast-break shot %
Share of shots from transitions
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16 of 20 · P21 · league med 7.1
On the ball
Possession
Avg ball possession
60.6%
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 50.3
Long-ball rate
Accurate long balls / passes
3.3%
20 of 20 · P0 · league med 8.8
Final-third entries
Final-third entries / passes
9.8%
9 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Side bias
Distance-weighted heatmap lean (+RHS / −LHS)
-1.4
12 of 20 · P42 · league med -1.2
Without the ball
Defensive actions / opp poss
Recoveries + tackles + ints ÷ opp possession
172.8
medium confidence — proxy, not PPDA
1 of 20 · P100 · league med 146.5
Clearances / match
Team clearances per game
21.6
12 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Opp touches in box
Opponent penalty-area touches / match
18.6
12 of 20 · P100 · league med 0
Duel win %
Won/match · aerial 12.7 · ground 35.5
51.9%
9 of 20 · P0 · league med 0
Game State
Historical next-goal tendency · lead protection · chasing response — same engine as Match Preview
38 matches · 100% coverage
Level
HIGH57 entries · 1586 min in state
Goal timing
When goals arrive across the match clock · scored % · conceded % · net per window
38 of 38 matches
Scored %
12%
0-15
13%
16-30
29%
31-45
12%
46-60
18%
61-75
17%
76-90+
Conceded %
0%
0-15
11%
16-30
17%
31-45
20%
46-60
31%
61-75
20%
76-90+
Net / match (window only)
+0.24
0-15
+0.16
16-30
+0.42
31-45
+0.05
46-60
+0.08
61-75
+0.16
76-90+
77 scored · 35 conceded · stoppage (90+) in 76–90+
Cross-layer insights (interpretive)
Anchored to season side bias — not updated by pitch swaps.
Team side bias near central (-1.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Team side bias near central (-1.4); flank fit is not strongly directional.
Heuristic classification — validate against match film for high-stakes use.
Similar teams
Style shape vs top-5 leagues, 25/26 — cosine similarity of the Team Identity radar percentiles (Possession, Assisted creation, Set pieces, Transitions, Directness, Box threat, Press proxy). Formation is context only and does not affect the score.
Napoli
Serie A
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P0 vs P0), Set pieces (P5 vs P0), Transitions (P21 vs P11).
Juventus
Serie A
Closest axes
Closest on Assisted creation (P100 vs P95), Set pieces (P5 vs P11), Box threat (P89 vs P79).
Barcelona
La Liga
Closest axes
Closest on Directness (P0 vs P0), Possession (P100 vs P100), Press proxy (P100 vs P100).